Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“Sustainability depends on community—when we learn to be happily reliant on each other, we’re less likely to turn to material consumption to… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants… — John Webster Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and… — Paul Meyer Copy Share Image
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“There are four big forces that have played a critical role in manipulating and feeding hyper-consumption: the power of persuasion; the buy… — Rachel Botsman Copy Share Image
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“the only way in which a whole country may save is by reducing its consumption. Consumption is therefore the destruction of wealth,… — Axel Kaiser Copy Share Image
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The system of economic production depended on the consumption of every conceivable kind of goods by everyone - consumption of entirely unnecessary… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
“By the time we came to understand the consequences of our revised patterns of consumption, the damage had been done to our… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be… — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
